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Dear Doug
On Tue, October 4, 2011 16:29, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> I like this, Lawrence (& will now say that I am reading them all but may
> not respond to every single one).
>

I do understand

L

> The first line, & its 'this time,' suggests that point about returning to
> resee & resay.
>
> An online publication might allow for links back & forth across some
> distance (& time?) among the poems collected...
>
> Doug
> On 2011-10-04, at 7:19 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
>
>
>> A narrow and narrowing bar this time.
>> Sea’s grabbed it as a harvest neck –
>> this and strong fingers are tightening round. An hundred minutes till
>> high tide.
>>
>> Almost all sand except southward
>> where green wrack smells as fallen, dead, scattered from the living
>> order. Down by The Cove edge, grey stones piled:
>>
>>
>> skulls and bones pushed down by waves’ crush North, input increased
>> incrementally till it crosses over. What had been intact is now damp and
>> breached.
>>
>
> Douglas Barbour
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> Why poetry? And why not, I asked,
> my right brain humming sedition.
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UNFRAMED GRAPHICS by Lawrence Upton
42 pages; A5 paperback; colour cover
Writers Forum 978 1 84254 277 4
wfuk.org.uk/blog
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Lawrence Upton
Dept of Music
Goldsmiths, University of London